Note 43 — LECTURE VIII. —— FALSE CARDS, LOGIC, LUCK. ——

Bad play is any kind of solecism perpetrated by somebody else; if by yourself, it may be either just your luck, pardonable inattention, playing too quickly, drawing the wrong card, or—in a very extreme case—carelessness, but it is never bad play; sometimes the difference is even greater than this, and what would be bad play in another, in yourself may be the acme of skill.